QOD

This blog purely for my own amusement. I like to start the day with a quote, be it amusing, inspiration, or simply something that caught my fancy.

On occasion, I might also include some commentary on the day's crossword puzzle that is published in the Los Angeles Times.

Friday 11 January 2013

Friday, January 11, 2013

QOD:  When I was young, I admired clever people.  Now that I am old, I admire kind people.  Abraham Joshua Heschel (Jan. 11, 1907 ~ Dec. 23, 1972), Polish-born American rabbi

Thursday 10 January 2013

Thursday, January 10, 2012

QOD:  Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and just give her a house.  ~  Rod Stewart (né Roderick David Stewart; b. Jan. 10, 1945), British musician

Wednesday 9 January 2013

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

QOD:  Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.  ~  Simone de Beauvoir (née Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir; Jan. 9, 1908 ~ Apr. 14, 1986), French existentialist philosopher and writer

Tuesday 8 January 2013

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

QOD: People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.  ~  Stephen Hawking (b. January 8, 1942), English theoretical physicist and cosmologist.  [Stephen Hawking died at age 76 on March 14, 2018]

Monday 7 January 2013

Monday, January 7, 2013

QOD:  It is not strange … to mistake change for progress.  ~  Millard Fillmore (Jan. 7, 1800 ~ March 8, 1874), 13th President of the United States

Sunday 6 January 2013

Sunday, January 6, 2013

QOD:  Life is like an onion.  You peel it off a layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.  ~  Carl Sandburg (Jan. 6, 1878 ~ July 22, 1967), American poet